What's In A Name ?
(What's In A Name ?) So, Arizona Senator Kiersten Sinema (D) has just "defected" from the Democrat Party in the sense that she is a declared Independent. Meaning what, exactly ? It is not like she has become a Republican, she will still Caucus with the Democrats, Schumer will still be Senate Majority Leader and all that that entails. What has changed ? Sinema will still be a reliable vote when bills will be brought to the floor. She will still give assent to President Biden's judicial nominees. So, what is the big deal ? Senator Sinema was one of those legislators that allowed for the passage of what became known as the IRA, though it does nothing of the sort, the other hold-out had been Senator Manchin. When he caved. Sinema was all but a lock herself. Now that that portion of the President's program, she feels she can do better as an Independent ? In own Sinema's words, the term "independent" is where she had always resided ideologically. That bein...